This enormous, 4-pound, 1,273-page Vintage Classics edition of War and Peace tipped the helmet. Has anyone read the My favorite War & Peace translation is the one by Pevear & Volokhonsky. James Wood reviews the new translation of War and Peace in The New Yorker. I will be reading from the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation, but I have also heard great things about the translation by Anthony Briggs. My edition teeters in at 1273 pages, but some editions go up to 1500 pages. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's translation gives us new access to the spirit and order of the book. The Stieg Larsson books, the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of “War and Peace,” and Laurie Sheck's “A Monster's Notes,” to name just a few (many more from his portfolio are delightfully catalogued on his Web site). I'd remembered reading an article in The New Yorker on Constance Garnett and “Translation Wars.” I remember that the article led me to purchase the Rosemary Edmonds' translation of War and Peace. War and Peace Translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky It's hard to overstate the case for this translation as being essential. Tolstoy, War & Peace (Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky's translation, Alfred A. Today I spent a good amount of time sitting outside reading the London Review of Books, and there was an excellent review of Pevear and Volokhonsky's translation of War and Peace. It is also hard to avoid hyperbole in its praise. War and Peace in helmet Here is the traditional Frisbee summer picture of a book in a bicycle helmet. I am no expert on the subject of course, but would like to perhaps read War and Peace again at christmas time.